THE MOST WANTED MAN IN AMERICA

Hardback. With the esprit of an Errol Flynn, he played as hard as he worked, made love to countless women in 44 states and 11 foreign countries, and there was only one problem, Jack Clouser was a fugitive from the law. He was a young and quickly successful Detective Sergeant on the Orlando, Florida police force when he got into trouble. Sentenced to 30yrs imprisonment for an armed robbery he swears he did not commit, Jack Clouser managed his escape in 1964. In 1965 he was captured by the FBI, but almost immediately escaped again. Of the 56,000 fugitives in America, only 10 at a time make the FBI's Most Wanted List, and Jack got on it - and stayed on it - longer than any man in history: 9yrs. When he surrendered in August of 1974, the "Today Show" recorded it for millions of Americans to witness. Jack Clouser, who eluded the police for 10yrs and 4mths, had turned himself in, saying he was self-rehabilitated and ready to prove it. What happened in those 10yrs, now recorded in this book, shows the techniques used by this record-breaking fugitive for hiding out in America, how he taunted J. Edgar Hoover, how he got new identities time and again, how he disguised himself without make-up so that his own roommates wouldn't recognise him from a "Ten Most Wanted" poster. Clouser reveals how he got and kept his jobs, the fun he had despite the daily threat of capture, and why he finally turned himself in. An adventurous love story that caps and crowns America's obsession with desperados in and out of the movies. Illus. 191pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges o/w covers F. in sunned vg+ dw.